Brick veneer



' wood-brick veneer type.

reamed on. a, 1922.

' enemas e. ROBINSON,

0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BEAVER COM- PANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Application filed January 9, 1920. Serial No. 350,317.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. RonmsoN, a citizen of the United States residing at Buffalo, in the countyof Erie, tate of New York, have invented certain new and use-' ful Improvements in Brick Veneer; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to weather board for use in building, and more especially to weather-boarding or siding of the so-called The invention has for its object the provision of an improved weather board of this character.

l Veather boarding is used in large quantities on the side of buildings, where it is nailed, oi'otlier'wise appropriately secured, to the frame of the building to form the exterior thereof. In order to present a pleasing appearance, such weather board should be of an artistic design, and to this end the weather board is frequently formed so as to present the appearance of a brick wall when assembled and secured to the frame of the building. Weather board for producing this brick effect is generally known as woodbrick veneer, and sometimes as imitation brick weather boarding, and. it is to this type of weather board that the present invention particularly relates.

It has heretofore been the customary practice to market weather board in the form of board lengths of about the width of the usual building bricks, for example, about three or four inches in width. The longitudinal edges of these strips of board are formed with complementary tongues, grooves, or the like, for providing a weather tight joint when the strips of board are assembled and secured to the frame of the building. The present invention contemplates the provision of a weather board of a width corresponding to the width of at least two ordinary building bricks, and preferably the improved board of the invention has a width corresponding to the width of three or more ordinary bricks. In other words, the improved board of the invention presentson its face the appearance of two or more layers of laid bricks, whereas, the hereto-fore customary brick veneer board of commerce has presented on its face the appearance ofonly a single layer of brick.

In carrying out the invention, I take a board of substantial width, for example, from SIX tO twelve inches or more in width, and I form in this board a plurality of spaced longitudinal grooves extending the entire length of the board and I also form a plurality of series of spaced transverse grooves between adjacent pairs of longitudinal grooves, each of the series of transverse grooves being out of alignment with any adjacent series of transverse grooves. As a result of this construction, I am able to use, in the manufacture of Wood-brick veneer, boards of considerable width, and the finished weather board of the invention, bemg at least twice as wide as the heretofore customary weather boards of this type, can be applied to the frames of buildings with increased economy.

The novel features of the invention which I believe to be patentable aredeiinitely indicated in the appended claim. These fea tures, together with the structure of weather board embodying the same, will be clearly understood from the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: I

Fig. l is a perspective view" of the improved weather board of the invention assembled on a corner of a building;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the section line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of a weather board embodying the features of the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the section line 4l-f of Fig. 3.

Referring first to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, it will be observed that the weather board therein illustrated presents on its face the appearance of three rows of laid brick. This appearance is imparted to the board by forming in its face three longitudinal grooves 10 extending the entire length of the board. The grooves 10 are appropriately spaced so that the raised portion between adjacent pairs of the grooves approximate in width the width of ordinary building brick. The grooves 10 are, of course, parallel, and are of such depth as to present, when assembled, the appearance of a brick Wall with rake joints.

Between adjacent pairs of grooves, 1 form a series of transverse grooves 11. The grooves in each series of transversegrooves 11 are out of alignment with the grooves in any adjacent series of the transverse grooves, The transverse grooves 11 are of the same depth as the longitudinal grooves 10, and in each series of transverse grooves the individual grooves are appropriately spaced, so that the raised portions on the face of the board'present the appearance of a plurality of layers of laid brick.

The longitudinal edges of the board are appropriately fashioned so as to form weather-tight joints when the boards are assembled in position in building. Thus, for example, one edge of the board may have a longitudinally extending rabbet 12, while the opposite edge of the board has a longitudinally extending ra-bbet 13. The rabbets l2 and 13 are complementary, that is to say, when the boards are assembled the rabbet 13 of one board fits into the rabbet 12 of the next adjacent board, so as to provide the de sired weather-tight joint between these boards. It will be noted that the rabbet 2 is of greater depth than the adjacent groove 10 and when the weather boards are assembled the groove 10 between adjacent boards has the same appearance as the intermediate grooves 10 in the main body face of the board.

The portion of the wall represented in Fig. 1 of the drawings is two boards high. In other words, this portion ofthe wall is made by placing two of the improved boards of the invention one above the other. in accordance with the heretofore customary practice, the portion of wall represented in Fig. 1 would be six boards high, or, in other words, would be formed by fitting together one above another six weather boards. It will, therefore, be evident that the improved reen er board of the invention is more readily ascheaper forms of lumber, such, for example, as hard or soft pine, are generally used, since lumber of this character is ordinarily satisfactory for the siding of frame buildings. The face of the board need not be planed or smooth andin' fact it is preferable that the face be slightly roughened, since in this condition it more nearly simulates the surface of building brick and, moreover, is better adapted for the reception of paint or similar decorative agent. To this end, the face of the board may be merely rough-sawed. l V-hen assembled, the raised portions on the face of the board are painted an appropriate color, usually red, to simulate the color of red building brick, while both the longitudinal and transverse grooves are painted a different color, for example, black, so that the fin shed exterior of the building presents the appearance of a brick wall with rake joints. I

ll claim:

A weather board having one face grooved longitudinally and transversely and the grooves being spaced and arranged to present the appearance of three courses of laid bricks, the transverse grooves in the alternate spaces between the longitudinal grooves alining and being staggered with respect to the grooves in the intermediate spaces, whereby to facilitate the matching of the boards during the laying by providing in each board a plurality of series of alined transverse grooves to aline with one or more transverse grooves of the preceding board.

in testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

(,HARLES G. ROBIN SON 

